Create website with CMS Made Simplehttp://www.icms.info Complete step-by-step tutorial for webmastersiCMS.infoCGFeedMaker 1.0.11 on CMS Made Simplesupport@icms.infosupport@icms.info (Sofia Hauschildt)Complete step-by-step tutorial for webmastershttp://www.icms.info Create website with CMS Made Simplehttp://www.icms.info/uploads/CGFeedMaker/logo.pngChecksum error: How to install moduleshttp://www.icms.info/website-howto/checksum-error-how-to-install-module
Sometimes when you try to install new module or upgrade existing one in the admin console, you get an error message:

Checksum error. This probably indicates a corrupt file, either when it was uploaded to the repository, or a problem in transit down to your machine.

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Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/checksum-error-how-to-install-moduleNice design - bad accessibilityhttp://www.icms.info/website-examples/nice-design-bad-accessibility
This is a nice website at first glance. I like this beautiful and professional design, clear structure and awesome images. However, there are critical issues with accessibility of the website.

Test: Disable images

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Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-examples/nice-design-bad-accessibilityBeautiful shop with some SEO issueshttp://www.icms.info/website-examples/beautiful-e-commerce-page
A beautiful jewelry shop is a pure CMS Made Simple solution and have been created from Calguy's E-commerce suite of modules. Browse through the site to see how well every module has been integrated.

There some SEO issues with...]]>

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-examples/beautiful-e-commerce-pageTouchInlineEdit - Editing im Frontendhttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/inline-edit-wysiwyg
When CMS Made Simple is compared to its competitors the one of "disadvantages" often pointed to is the strict separation between admin backend and front end. A lot of other CMS allow editing on the page and, indeed, it saves time. Especially, if your website grows and it becomes difficult to...]]>
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/inline-edit-wysiwygShowtime. Flash or JQuery for everyonehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/showtime-sliding
If you are a bit tired of Light box effect and tons of galleries that are created with this famous effect or with one its numerous variations, you have to try the new module Showtime. Displaying a gallery...]]>
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/showtime-slidingFeatured moduleshttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules
There are over 700 modules for CMS Made Simple. Some of them were created in the early years and have been integrated into the core installation. Another have been abandoned by their developers and wait for revivals. There are also modules that have been planned, but never released. It is not...]]>
Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modulesCMS Made Simple Templates from icms.infohttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple-templates/cmsms-templates
These free templates have been ported to CMS Made Simple. You do not need any HTML knowledge to use this tempaltes. All templates include:

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple-templates/cmsms-templatesCMS Made Simple Beginner's Guidehttp://www.icms.info/book
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/bookHow to backup your websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/backup-website
Backup is making copies of your files AND database. You need backup in case of disaster if something goes wrong on your web hosting. The data can be lost due to hosting issues or caused by webmaster mistakes. Therefore it is important to have backup files to be able to restore your...]]>
Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/backup-websiteComments on every pagehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/comments-on-content
Do you like blog comment feature? You do not need a blog to have the same functionality on each CMS Made Simple page and even integrated in your News or Photo Gallery. CMS Made Simple includes simple but powerful module – Comments.

Features of the module Comments

Adds...]]>

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/comments-on-contentEvent Calendarhttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/event-calendar
If you need calendar for your website to post events scheduled for your website, company or club, you can use the module Calendar.

Features of module Calendar

Create categories of events

Assign one event to multiple categories

Display month view or...]]>

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/event-calendarGuestbook on the websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/guestbook
Would you like to have a guestbook on your band website or personal homepage? You can allow your visitors to write into the guestbook and even make list of customers' compliments from the module if you like.

Features of module Guestbook

Filter and replace "bad" words...]]>

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/guestbookContact form for the websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/contact-form
Normally you add contact information on your website. You can use your e-mail (bad idea because of spam). Or you add a contact form where the visitors can fill some fields and submit it. An e-mail is generated from the information entered into the form and sent to the e-mail address you have...]]>
Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/contact-formPhoto galleryhttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/photo-gallery
Add a sophisticated photo gallery on your website with module Album. Upload image files, select between different built-in templates and your gallery is ready to use.

Features of module Photo Albums

Create and edit albums

Create and edit album categories

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/photo-galleryMember registration for your websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-in/join-members
This article explains how you can allow visitors of your website register themselves, so that you do not need to add users manually to your website in the admin panel of FrontEndUsers. There is another module that you need for this part called...]]>
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-in/join-membersCreate protected pageshttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-in/protected-pages
Protected pages can be viewed only by registered members and as you have already installed membership management module you can proceed with creating protected pages.

In some modules, like Forum Made Simple the protection is built in...]]>

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-in/protected-pagesGlobal content blockshttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/global-content-blocks
Beside the ordinary page content you can also use a global content blocks in CMS Made Simple. Global content is very useful feature for repeated parts of your content. Imagine you add Google ads in your pages. You know that you have to add Google code in each page again and again. What...]]>
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/global-content-blocksImage Managerhttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/image-manager
Sure you would like to add images to your website. Whether they are placed in the content of pages or used in templates or gallery, they have to be uploaded to the web space first.

You should optimize your images before displaying them on the website. NEVER add images that are larger...]]>

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/image-managerLayout Controlhttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/layout-control
Gala Purity theme has a built-in template control for easy displaying different parts of the website. You can switch on and off up to 7 parts of the template.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/upload-websiteBeginning with CMS Made Simplehttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple
Why to choose CMS Made Simple to create websites? There are 4 reasons for it:

What tool should you use to create websites? It depends on the kind of your website and how the content of your web page is created. If you right the content yourself then you need content management system (CMS) or blogging tool like Wordpress. If the content of your website is created...]]>

There are thousands of hosting companies over the world, but you need to choose only one web hosting you can trust. The success or failure of the website has direct dependency on the quality of the web hosting provider.

Website domain is the address of the website. The choice of the website domain is very important step and will influence the website during its whole life. It affects your self-presentation, the presentation of the company and search engine optimization as well. Changing the domain name...]]>

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/create-website/website-domainPlan your own websitehttp://www.icms.info/create-website/website-plan
Let's see how we can plan website. Yes, we start to plan first still not making anything "material". You have to spend time on this step because in fact you will save your time afterwards avoiding time-consuming rebuilding, recreating or reorganizing of your website....]]>
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/create-website/website-planWebsite Ideas and Purposeshttp://www.icms.info/create-website/website-ideas
Amazing but a lot of websites are started without any idea. If it is a personal website, the only idea was "Writing stuff about me", for commercial website "making money online in any way". Do not start this way. Before making any steps first find out the right subject for your website....]]>
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/create-website/website-ideasCreate website with best CMS?http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-choose-the-best-cms
First of all, there is no the best one for all needs and requirements. Choosing the best CMS suitable for your project can be a long process.

Consider some criteria for CMS:

costs

simplicity

flexibility

support

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Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-choose-the-best-cmsMaking some SEO with CMS Made Simple?http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-make-seo-title-meta-with-cms-made-simple

Let's start from the very beginning. Go to admin admin panel and open Layout → Templates. It is the main template where you start to optimize your website.

Title tag

The most important SEO aspect is the title tag. It must be different on every page. If...]]>

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-make-seo-title-meta-with-cms-made-simpleMember login for your websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-in
With member management you can allow visitors of your website to see the contents only available for registered users.

Website members are not the same as admin users of your website!

In the admin panel you will find the section Users. These are only webmasters,...]]>

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/member-sign-inAdd RSS Feed to your websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/rss-feed-maker
This addon creates automatically RSS Feed from different parts of your website. All you need is just install module CGFeedMaker and add some lines to the global settings resp. your content pages. You can subscribe to Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/rss-feed-makerHow to upgrade CMS Made Simple?http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-upgrade-cms-made-simple-to-new-version
CMS Made Simple community improves the application constantly therefore new versions are released regularly. If the new version is released you should see in the admin panel below the main menu a message "You have 1 unhandled notification". The message appears only once a day!...]]>
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/how-to-upgrade-cms-made-simple-to-new-versionHow to check hosting for CMS Made Simple?http://www.icms.info/website-howto/cms-made-simple-hosting
As already stated in Preparation to setup, CMS Made Simple does not require any exotic features to run stable and smooth.

How to figure out whether your hosting meets all requirements? It's easy enough. Just download this small

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/cms-made-simple-hostingPractice Tips and HowTo'shttp://www.icms.info/website-howto
While giving support for CMS Made Simple and teaching my webmaster pupitls I am constantly have to answer the same questions. Normally the answer does not contain only few words but a complete howto. In this section I am going to submit the most frequent HowTo articles I have written for my...]]>
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howtoAdditional plugins for the websitehttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/plugins
Contrary to the modules you can also use small helpers called tag. Tags do not have extended functionality such as modules but are very helpful for quick adding any customized output into templates or content pages. Some plugins are already installed with CMS Made Simple and are explained in...]]>
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/pluginsCreate Google Sitemaphttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/google-sitemap
CMS Made Simple can automatically generate Google Sitemap for your website. Moreover the Sitemap is automatically updated if you add new pages, remove old ones or just change the structure of the website.

In general, there are two types of site maps. The first type of site map is a HTML...]]>

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/google-sitemapProtect forms with captchahttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/backup-website/captcha
If visitors of your website can leave comments, register as member or use contact form, then you have to protect the forms with Captcha to avoid spam. Captchas are generated pictures that can be read by humans and not by spam bots. See an example for captcha picture:

{captcha}

If...]]>

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/backup-website/captchaTags - small helpershttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/tags
CMS Made Simple provides small helpers called tags. Tags (also called plug-ins) are very helpful for quick adding any dynamic information into content pages. You use them as placeholder containing information from the database.

Tags can be found in the admin panel. Go...]]>

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/tagsUsing CMS Menu in Contenthttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/cms-menu
Navigation or menu is already pasted into your template. There is a top-navigation that displays pages in the first level of the page hierarchy. Some pages are not shown if you deselect “Show in Menu” check box in Option tab of the page.

Sidebar navigation displays all children of...]]>

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/cms-menuMails from CMS with CMSMailerhttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/cmsmailer
The configuration of module CMSMailer is important since your CMS should be able to send e-mails. If you do not configure it, you will not even be able get an e-mail with new login information if you forget your administrator password. This module is also used by any other CMS Made Simple...]]>
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/cmsmailerSearch content on the websitehttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/site-search
Searching on the website can be very helpful if you have a lot of content. There is rudimentary search function for CMS Made Simple that searches along with content pages and news articles. The visitor of your website can put in a word or two and a search result for matching pages is...]]>
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/site-searchAdd news on the websitehttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/add-news
If you would like to add news articles on the website ask yourself if you have enough news at least once a month? Nothing is so sad as to see website news published a year or more ago. Do not spend your time on implementing news if you do not know right now where you will get the news articles...]]>
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/add-newsWYSIWYG Editor (TinyMCE)http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/wysiwyg-editor
WYSIWYG Editor is the central and most important feature for every CMS. Editor helps you to add, edit and format you content without having any HTML knowledge. It displays the edited content the same way it will be displayed on the website. If you create a website with CMS then you are going...]]>
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/wysiwyg-editorAdditional modules for your websitehttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/module-manager
With Module Manager you can easy add additional features to your website. Just to name some of them: Front End User (login functionality for your visitors), Google Sitemap, Image Gallery, Shop Made Simple, Forum Made Simple, Company Directory or Cataloguer for products, real property or...]]>
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/module-managerGlobal Settingshttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/global-settings
Global settings for your CMS Made Simple website allows you to mainly set defaults for your website, such as website name, default language, global metadata and sitedown message.

In the admin panel go to Site Admin → Global Settings. In the field "Site name" you can change the name...]]>

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/website-tools/global-settingsRewrite URLs. Not only for search engines.http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/seo-friendly-urls
Search engine friendly URLs are website addresses that does not contain any dynamic components in it and thus are better readable for humans and search engines. Compare the 2 URLs below: http://youdomain.com/index.php?page=productshttp://yourdomain.com/products...]]>
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/seo-friendly-urlsCreating pages and navigationhttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/pages-and-navigation

In CMS Made Simple the navigation of your site is formed from the existing pages. It means, that every page you created is automatically added to the navigation structure of the page.

Add new page

Go to Content → Pages and click on “Add New Content”. Type the...]]>

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/pages-and-navigationHow to create an own template?http://www.icms.info/website-howto/own-template
In this article you learn how to create a simple template for CMS Made Simple. To be more precise, in CMS Made Simple you create a theme that consists of at least one template and one stylesheet. Additional templates for different modules can be part of the theme as well.

To create a...]]>

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/website-howto/own-templateSetup CMS Made Simple step by stephttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple/setup-webpage
The files have been uploaded to the hosting. Type your domain name in the address bar of the browser to start installation and follow the installation steps.

Step 1

Choose the installation language. If you only see English, then you...]]>

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/CMS Made Simple Templateshttp://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple-templates
CMS Made Simple is a perfect tool especially for designers. Entire themes are built from old and good known HTML and CSS. You can also integrate any JQuery plugin into your templates. There are no restrictions. Even frames are possible with CMS Made Simple.

There are some resources...]]>

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/cms-made-simple-templatesModules and tagshttp://www.icms.info/featured-modules/website-addons
Addons (or CMS Made Simple modules and tags) are used to enrich your website with additional functions. There are a lot of useful modules and tags that do not belong to the standard installation of CMS Made Simple just because of the number of them. When you create a website you know what...]]>
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200http://www.icms.info/featured-modules/website-addons